i messed up, its watcher of the hearts. my bad. i was tierd. weeee, its the 4th of July. Heppy independence day! now i must go hide so my dad doesn't try to get me to read the whole declaration of independence.

Fire that helps Chapter 10

"Get away from me you dumb bastard. Don't just think I'll forget what you did, or tried to do for that matter."

"Awe, come on Mia. You were hot, and I was young and horny. What did you expect? I'm surprised the Fire Lord himself didn't try…" he never got to finish what he said as Mia's fist connected with his face, giving him a bloody nose. He stumbled backwards and grabbed his nose.

"Whatever, I'm married now. I just wanted a second chance."

"And you start like that? You still are a mental retard." She grabbed Sokka's hand again and pulled him along with her down the street.

"Who was that? And what did he do to you?" Sokka insisted as they walked down the streets, it was Saturday, the day that Sokka had off and the day most families went shopping. The streets were becoming more crowded by the minute.

"Inane, and he tried to rape me. Zuko had saved me from that one." She told him. She pulled him down another street; there were houses along this road, not houses really, but large estates. The Fire Palace was at the end of this road. He could see it. Mia stopped at one of the houses and knocked on the door. A woman dressed in servant's cloths opened the door.

"Well, well if it isn't Mia. Decided to come back did you? Look at how much you've grown. You've blossomed into a beautiful young woman, just like your mother when she was your age." The woman said. Mia smiled and hugged her.

"Ana, I missed you a lot."

"But not enough to come back."

"I refused to return as long as that bastard was alive."

"And after he died?"

"I had, things to attend to."

"Like this boy?" she nudged the woman.

"That is none of your business."

"Oh, I see how it is. Come in honey, come in." she ushered them inside into a large foyer. "You should have seen it when Admiral Choy returned home, he was telling anyone who would listen that you were alive, and that he had seen you."

"How many are home?"

"All of them. Admiral Choy is sparring with Commander Solzu. The triplets are eating breakfast."

"Do they know I am here?"

"No, shall I fetch them."

"I think I'll join their fight."

"Yes Mia, I think you remember where everything is."

"I do."

"Then I shall be in the kitchen if you need me." The woman, Ana bowed in respect and left tem. Mia trudged off into a hall, and Sokka followed her. They came to a spot outside. He saw two men sparring, one he recognized as Admiral Choy, the man who had captured them on that ship so long ago. The other was obviously younger, but just as strong.

"Stay here." Mia told him. She silently picked her way around the brambles. She found a spot and watched as they finished. Admiral Choy kicked the other boy's feet out from under him and knocked him over, winning the fight. The Admiral offered his hand to the other boy and pulled him up into a standing position. Mia clapped behind them. They spun around and seeing her ran forward and pulled her into a group hug. "Can't breath damn it…" she yelped and they let her go.

"Mia, what the hell happened? You dropped off the face of the earth." The other boy told her.

"I had some unfinished business to carry out." She gave them a small 'don't ask' smile. The boys shrugged it off.

"Come on, you must see the triplets." Admiral Choy grabbed her wrist and tugged on it. She slipped out of his grasp.

"Wait, I want you to meet someone." She disappeared back into the garden and grabbed Sokka's wrist. She dragged him out into the small arena. Both men blinked, looked at each other, then bowed to Sokka.

"Mia, may I ask what the occasion is that you bring the brother of the fire queen to our home?" Admiral Choy asked her.

"Sokka and I have been courting for quite a while and I decided to bring him to you to meet him." Solzu's eyes widened at this but he said nothing. Admiral Choy looked surprised.

"How long have you been back?" he asked her

"Not long, I got back last night. We began courting back before This Fire Lord, when the war was still going on." Admiral Choy nodded his head in approval.

"You have my approval." Solzu said nothing, so Admiral nudged his little brother.

"Mine too." He told the two. Mia smiled and they all left the arena, heading toward the house. They entered a room that had 3 boys; they looked like exact copies of each other, all with the same exact hairstyle and features, but different color ribbons in their hair, one was black, one was gold, and one was red.

"Mia!" the three men exclaimed when they saw her, after all they all thought she was dead along with Zhao. They all jumped up and hugged their little sister. She smiled and hugged them all back.

"I have missed you guys."

"We all though you were dead, but Choy was all 'she's alive dammit, I'm positive of that. Don't touch any of her stuff, she is alive' we all called him nuts, but he was right." The one with the gold ribbon told Mia. She nodded,

"And of course you will be returning home. By the way, little sister of mine, when did you get back." Admiral Choy said with a grin on his face.

"Last night." Mia said simply,

"Oh, well then where did you stay?" Choy asked her with an agitated voice

"At Sokka's place" All five of her brothers eyebrows raised "But, I slept where I landed, he slept on a chair."

"Good, you are still unwed and that would have been sinful." The man with the gold ribbon said.

"Oh yeah, right Sokka this is Naro, Kimigi, and Gigo, Naro has the gold ribbon, Kimigi has the red one and Gigo has the black ribbon. Triplets, this is Sokka, my boyfriend." She told them, Sokka took notice to how the triplets reacted. Naro simply raised his eyebrows, Kimigi shrugged it off, but Gigo looked at him with an element of not trusting him. Just like I look at Zuko. Sokka thought to himself. He didn't dare ask today, it would be awkward. I don't know how much longer I can go without asking though. He had talked to Zuko, and learned that in the Fire Nation, if a man wanted to marry a woman, he had to ask permission of the father, or if the father was dead the permission of the oldest brother. Admiral Choy would be the one to ask, yes I'll ask him Monday at work. He trains the benders and I train the non-benders, I'll just have to catch him alone, but in the presence of others incase he tries to kill me.
"Hey, don't you work at the Academy too, in the non-benders department?" Admiral Choy asked him. Sokka nodded. "Well speak damn it, here we rely on words, not head bobbing."

"Yes I do." Sokka told him, not wanting to anger the Admiral. His gaze moved down to his feet. Gigo stood up.

"Well, the three of us must be going, the navy ships don't build themselves." He insisted. Kimigi and Naro stood and followed their brother out the elegant wooden doorframe. Solzu leaned back and placed his head on the wall.

"Ah, quite." He mumbled. Choy rolled his eyes. Sokka moved his eyes to look out the window.

"I've got to go, I'm supposed to meet my sister for a walk with the prince. She calls it male bonding or something like that." Sokka said, "I'll see you later."

"I'll show you out." Mia spoke up and grabbed his arm and dragged him out of the room and into the main hall. "That couldn't of gone any worse." She groaned, and Sokka nodded. "My God, why were you so quite, usually you never shut-up."

"I just, didn't want to say anything stupid." He told her, her face softened.

"Aww, that's sweet. But now my brother thinks there is something wrong with you or something." She moved next to him and placed her arm around his waist and kissed him on the cheek.

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Solzu spied on his sister with the water tribe man. He watched as they talked, and as his sister moved and put her arm around the boy's waist. His eyes widened as he watched the water tribe man kiss his younger sister, and they seemed to be using tongue. But why should I be mad, after all, he is the sister to the wife of our Fire Lord, even though if it weren't for her then my sister would be the fire queen. And he also is very handsome, plus my sister is 19, and able to marry. He thought to himself. He watched as the two drew apart and the water tribe man left. He quickly slipped back into the kitchen before Mia could get there. She came back into the kitchen, with the same smile he remembered on his sister when she was a baby, small, clueless and happy.

"So this Sokka man, he is how old?" Choy asked her

"19, only a few months older than me." She told him

"How long have you known him?"

"Since we were 15 and I was training the avatar in firebending." Solzu nodded to this, it was not in everyone's head and heard at least once a week that his little sister had been the one to teach the avatar firebending. Choy nodded at this. "We have a lot of catching up to do sister."

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Aang and Toph were curled up on Appa, sleeping. It was just nightfall and the two had already fallen asleep, both preferring to sleep on top of Appa in the lush outdoors than in an inn. Toph was curled up in Aang's arms, her head on his chest. There was only one thing; he was in the spirit world in his sleep. He didn't know how he got there, one second he was dreaming about Toph and cheese, the next he was in the spirit world, before Avatar Roku.

"Avatar Aang, I have brought you here to tell you something new, and important. We had a second Avatar Spirit released, and she has been active for a while."

"I do not understand" Aang was confused, wasn't there only one Avatar?

"Let me explain, when you were trapped in the iceberg, a fraction of your spirit was moved into the Spirit world. We decided to create a back up Avatar. Unfortunately, the spirits for water and earth never lived long enough to even learn that they were an avatar. Then we come to the element fire and the avatar for this. This avatar survived, but does not know that she is an avatar. She is 19 currently and living in the capitol of the Fire Nation. You need to find her and get her to pass over into the spirit world, so that she can complete the avatar cycle and there will only be one avatar again."

"Why was there a second Avatar created?"

"To restore the balance incase you didn't escape in time. It defiled all laws, but we did it anyway. Now go."

"But who is it?"

"You have already met her."

"How can I tell?"

"Her eyes are a unique color, no one else has ever had the same color eyes as her…" Avatar Roku faded into a distant shape and Aang found himself in complete darkness. He opened his eyes and found himself once again with Toph in his arms, asleep. He blinked a few times, registering what had just happened. Then he figured it out, what Roku had meant by the unique eyes thing. Only one person he knew had eyes that unique that no one else in the world had them. He quietly shook Toph a little so that she would wake up.

"Wha…" she said sitting up.

"Toph, we need to go to the Fire Nation."

"What for?"

"I had a dream, I was talking to Roku and I need to do something."

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Sokka grunted as he picked up a few stray weapons that were left on the floor in his classroom. They just had to give me the young children before lunch didn't they? He thought with a grunt as he put the stray weapons into the supply closet. He locked the door to the room and went into the lunchroom. He got his normal lunch and headed for the teachers' lounge. Once there he sat by himself, as usual. Most of the other teachers just glanced at him sometimes, they clearly thought that he didn't belong here. He knew Choy; he was the second in command at the Royal Fire Navy Academy, and had been the one to hire him as the new defensive arts teacher. Choy taught the advanced bending classes. After lunch he headed back to his classroom, which was when the older children where. They were a lot better than the younger children. He finished his classes and locked his room out. He went to find Choy; he needed to ask him something. He found him, doing the same as he had been doing in his own classroom, picking up stuff. He knocked on the door, or rather the wall next to the door. "Enter." he heard Choy say, he entered.

"Oh, hello Sokka." Choy said, putting the last dummy away into his supply closet. "What can I help you wish?"

"I need to ask you something, about Mia." Sokka told him, he remembered to look him straight in the eye when he talked to him.

"What about her?" Choy looked at him, with the same emotionless face that Mia used looked at him with all the time.

"I would like your permission to ask for her hand in marriage." He stated, looking Choy right in the eye as he said it. Choy shook his head in approval.

"I approve, do you know how to propose to her?"

"No, Fire Lord Zuko just told me that I needed to ask the permission of the oldest brother or father."

"Similar to the Water Tribe, you go and find a stone. Then you polish it until it shines and is small and round, about the size of two fingers across. You then carve into it a symbol; it can be any symbol. Then you attach it to a chain and present it as a necklace to the girl." Choy told him, locking the supply closet and turning around.

"Thank you." Sokka bowed slightly and turned and left. He headed strait for the beach to find a stone. He found one finally; it was a bright red. He took it back to his house, but not with out stopping for some dinner first. He took a sanding stone and a knife and got to work on his new project.

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He spent three days working on that pendent. Before work, and after work, that was all that he did. He had seen little of Mia in the past few days, but Choy had begun to eat lunch with him, and it appeared that Mia had gotten the job as the Royal Fire Navy Academy for Girls head firebending instructor. Mia was also now living at home, Choy decided that Sokka should propose to her on Saturday, there was a festival going on and he could get her to go out with him. Surprisingly Choy wanted him to marry his sister. He finally managed to work up the guts to ask him why.

"Because Mia is getting older, and in the Fire Nation the women must be wed before they are 22 or they will have a groom chosen for them. I do not want my sister ending up with some old hag." Had been his answer.

It was Saturday now, and he and Mia were at the festival. She was happy to see him, having not seen him all week.

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Sokka and Mia took some seats on a bench in town to watch the fireworks. He kept glancing at her, and it was making her nervous. He finally took a deep breath. "Mia, I want to ask you something."

"What?" she asked him, she had never been the brightest bulb in the bunch. She was not all too smart, she had to push herself to remember things that her teachers would throw at her, and she had never had too good a memory. She was a very in one ear and out the other type of girl. Her common sense proved her the opposite way; it usually caught on quickly to things, but this time she honestly had no idea what he was asking her. The first thought that came to mind, was he wanted to know whether to buy noodles or dumplings. He reached back into his pocket and pulled something out, it was covered by his hand though. This is the perfect place! As much as I'd like to not admit it I can't help it. All the lush decorations of paper lanterns and colorful masks, this is all just way too damn perfect. Sokka thought to himself.

"Mia, would you marry me?" he opened his hand, revealing the necklace he had carved her. It was a red stone, with the symbols for the Fire Nation and Water Tribe interloping. He had polished this stone within an inch of its life, and then he had carved his design. He had it sealed afterwards so it wouldn't crack or anything.

"Yes." Mia threw bother her arms around his neck and hugged him tight. Sokka smiled and hugged her back. People were giving them weird looks on the street, but he really didn't give a damn. She said yes, she said yes, Was all that went through his head right now.

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Aang and Toph landed in the Fire Capitol 2 moths later, as they had been somewhere in the central Earth Kingdom when they had left. They immediately went the Fire Palace. He was let through and into the throne room, where Zuko was sitting on his throne.

"Avatar, long time no see." He stated. "What brings you here?"

"With all due respect, I need to see Mia. I have been told that she is here in the capitol. Do you know where she is?" Zuko smiled a little.

"Yes, she is here in the capitol. I shall warn you though that she has changed much since the last time you saw her. She has married."

"To who?" Aang asked Zuko. Zuko just smirked and looked at him.

"You know him quite well…" It all registered to Aang.

"She married, Sokka?" Aang blurted out. No freaking way, Sokka would never, than again he really did seem to like her even…

"Yes she did." Oh shit, he's not going to like me escorting her into the spirit world.

"Can you tell me where she is?"

"It is late, they would be at their house. I can arrange someone to take you over there…"

"My Lord," A guard busted into the room, "extremely sorry to interrupt but we have a problem."

"What is it?"

"Your son Prince Shang has been kidnapped."

Dun dun dun! I'm cutting off here.